@variablepulserate ah interesting. I bet 99% of my queries are programming-related or more general topic searches, rather than local anything, so I neatly sidestep all those problems. I do sometimes try Google if I come up empty at DDG, but find it’s rare in that case for Google to find anything, either, so I feel pretty well-served.
Google’s “Instant Answers” are pretty neat. But I often feel they make it harder to evaluate provenance before looking at the info vs scanning search listings and then digging in, so they throw me off. 😆